This is a nice suggestion. We would welcome OI developers on our bandwagon. This may happen a bit later, though. First we need some steps to be done: - finish preparing and cleaning our own illumos, userland, X11, desktopland and pkg codebases, ready to be opened as final source gates. - have new iso files out very shortly as server, desktop, and developer distros, as a starting point. - have our public pkg repo updated with the brand new packages, and fully tested for upgrades from previous XStreamOS iso. Once this is done, we can let OI developer join our code base and bring whatever needed. What do you think? Gabriele. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 via Santa Maria Valle 3 - 20123 - Milano - Italy http://www.sonicle.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Da: fi...@linuxbsdos.com A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Data: 15 maggio 2013 16.21.29 CET Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress Here's a suggestion to OI devs. How about getting together with Sonicle to explore the possibility of merging OI and XStreamOS server and desktop? I think it will be better for the community and for everybody and it will bring more talent and resources to focus on a distribution instead of spreading it out to two different distros. What do you guys think? -- finid On 2013-05-15 12:52, fi...@linuxbsdos.com wrote: Gabriele, A company-sponsored illumos desktop distribution is very welcome. Here are a few suggestions: 1. A graphical installer will make it a hit for new users. Users expect one on a modern desktop distribution. If you don't have a gui installer yet, check out PC-BSD's graphical installer. Might be easier to port it than code one from scratch. 2. Let's shoot for complete out of the box "it just works." That means, I install it and start being productive without having to mess with configuration files and other manual configuration that should work by default. Think about those who do not want to learn how the OS works before they can send email or interface with their friends on social networks. 3. Excellent default physical and network security posture of the box. 4. Graphical tools that makes it easy for new users to make use of ZFS' excellent features. 5. On the app side, being able to choose between OpenOffice and LibeOffice is a good option, especially since their will be some feature differences. This is minor, but you might want to not bother about pdf readers. Firefox comes with a built-in PDF reader, which has rendered a standalone PDF reader obsolete. 6. LXDE sounds good for a desktop environment, but have you considered Cinnamon? It's one of the most popular ones we have around and because it's built atop GNOME 3 technologies, it's not very resource intensive. That should get us started. Looking forward to the first public release, but if "outsiders" to take a look at it before it hits the download mirrors, I'll be more than happy to take it for a spin. Thanks, -- finid http://LinuxBSDos.com On 2013-05-15 09:28, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi everyone, at Sonicle we've almost finished rebuilding a brand new IPS repo with updated packages from latest illumos kernel, updated userland components, X11 1.13.1, updated pkg commands. We wanted to rebuild everything from available sources, to remove any possible dependency from old packages derived from OI. This repo will be available soon on our public pkg.sonicle.com/xstreamos publisher, then a pkg update will do the job over any previous XStreamOS installation. Then, I'd like to announce that we're also working on a Desktop version of XStreamOS. We've chosen, first, do deliver the LXDE desktop as a lightweight frontend. So we have already packaged all the gnome and other dependencies in our userland. The desktop already works, and is nice. To make it usable, we're packaging all the typical application one may need on a fresh install (file manager, text editor, calculator, terminal, and so on). We've also already packaged both Firefox 20.0.1 and Thunderbird 17.0.5, and they work great on illumos. We have plan to pre-package open-office or libre-office, pdf readers, media apps and so on. We would like your suggestions for what you would expect to have on a Desktop distro of XStreamOS. Thanks! Gabriele Bulfon. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. 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